genus

Maiestas Distant, 1917

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (26)

Maiestas Distant, 1917a: 312.
type species by original monotypy Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917
Togacephalus Matsumura, 1940d: 38.
type species by original designation Deltocephalus distinctus Motschulsky, 1859
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Inemadara Ishihara, 1953b: 48.
type species by original designation Deltocephalus oryzae Matsumura, 1902
Recilia (Inazuma) Ishihara, 1953b: 48.
type species by original designation Deltocephalus dorsalis Motschulsky, 1859
Deltocephalus (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960a: 44.
type species by original designation Stirellus subviridis Metcalf, 1946
Deltocephalus (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960b: 303.
type species by original designation Stirellus subviridis Metcalf, 1946
Deltocephalus (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960 (synonymic homonym of Deltocephalus (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960)
Recilia (Inazuma) Ishihara, 1953 (subjective synonym of Recilia Edwards, 1922) in Nielson, 1968b: 315.
Inemadara Ishihara, 1953 (classified as Deltocephalina Fieber, 1869) in Hamilton, 1975b: 488.
Recilia (Inazuma) Ishihara, 1953 (classified as Deltocephalina Fieber, 1869) in Hamilton, 1975b: 488.
Togacephalus Matsumura, 1940 (classified as Deltocephalina Fieber, 1869) in Hamilton, 1975b: 489.
Deltocephalus (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960 (subjective synonym of Recilia Edwards, 1922) in Knight, 1975a: 203.
Recilia (Togacephalus) Matsumura, 1940 in Lee, 1979a: 409.
Inemadara Ishihara, 1953 (subjective synonym of Maiestas Distant, 1917) in Kwon & Lee, 1979b: 74.
Inemedara [sic] Ishihara, 1953 in Claridge & Wilson, 1981c: 22.
Inemedara [sic] Ishihara, 1953 (misspelling of Inemadara Ishihara, 1953) in Claridge & Wilson, 1981c: 22.
Maiestas Distant, 1917 (classified as Platymetopiini Haupt, 1929) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 227.
Recilia (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960 in Day & Fletcher, 1994a: 1203.
Recilia (Togocephalus [sic]) Matsumura, 1940 in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 16.
Deltocephalus (Insulanus) Linnavuori, 1960 (subjective synonym of Maiestas Distant, 1917) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 14.
Recilia (Inazuma) Ishihara, 1953 (subjective synonym of Maiestas Distant, 1917) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 14.
Togacephalus Matsumura, 1940 (subjective synonym of Maiestas Distant, 1917) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 14.
Recilia (Togocephalus [sic]) Matsumura, 1940 (misspelling of Togacephalus Matsumura, 1940) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 16.
Maiestas Distant, 1917 (classified as Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 65.

Maietas [sic] Distant, 1917 in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1629.
Maietas [sic] Distant, 1917 (misspelling of Maiestas Distant, 1917) in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1629.

Type

Maiestas illustris Distant, 1917 type species by original monotypy of Maiestas Distant, 1917

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after lex maiestatis, any one of several ancient Roman laws throughout the Republican and Imperial periods dealing with crimes against the Roman people, state, or Emperor; Latin: maiestas (majesty, treason, prestige)

Nomenclature references (17)

Claridge, M.F. & Wilson, M.R. (1981c) The leafhopper and planthopper fauna of rice fields in South East Asia. Acta Entomologica Fennica, 38, 21–22.
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. (1994a) An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 8(5), 1117–1288.
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Distant, W.L. (1917a) Rhynchota. Part II: Suborder Homoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 17, 273–322.

Edwards, J. (1922a) A generic arrangement of British Jassina. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 58, 204–207.

Hamilton, K.G.A. (1975b) Review of the tribal classification of the leafhopper subfamily Aphrodinae (Deltocephalinae of authors) of the Holarctic region (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 107, 477–498.

Ishihara, T. (1953b) A tentative check list of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan (Homoptera). Sci. Rpt. Matsuyama Agr. Col., 11, 1–72.

Knight, W.J. (1975a) Deltocephalinae of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2(2), 169–208.

Kwon, Y.J. & Lee, C.-E. (1979b) On some new and little known Palearctic species of leafhoppers (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Nature and Life in Southeast Asia (Kyungpook Journal of Biological Sciences.), 9(2), 69–97.

Lee, C.-E. (1979a) Illustrated Flora and Fauna of Korea. 23. Insecta. 7. Samhwa Publishing Co., Ltd. Seoul. 1070 pp. (In Korean.). [in Korean]

Linnavuori, R.E. (1960a) Cicadellidae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) of Fiji. Acta Entomologica Fennica, 15, 1–71.

Linnavuori, R.E. (1960b) Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Cicadellidae. Insects of Micronesia, 6(5), 231–344.

Matsumura, S. (1940d) Homopterous insects collected at Kotosho (Botel Tabago), Formosa, by Mr. Tadao Kano. Insecta Matsumurana, 15(1-2), 34–51.

Nielson, M.W. (1968b) The leafhopper vectors of phytopathogenic viruses (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Taxonomy, biology and virus transmission. Technical Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1382, 1–386.

Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.

Srinivasa, R.N. & Meshram, N.M. (2017) Note on genus Maiestas (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with diagnosis of important species. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5(5), 1616–1636.

Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2009a) Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 2163, 1–64.
Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211.

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	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
genus	11	1	10
species	322	113	209